Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

Plot Summary

A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent. It is based on an autobiographical account by Carol-Ann Courtney. At first, the girl has some diversion from her intense and frightening relationship with her father in the person of her maternal grandmother, but that outlet is soon closed when her father bans her from their home.

Top Cast

Patrick Bergin Terence O'Farrell

Joanna Griffiths Caroline O'Farrell

Sue Jones-Davies Irene O'Farrell

Sue Roderick Ruby

Gwenllian Davies Gran